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<i>HARRY POTTER</i> STAR DANIEL RADCLIFFE DUBBED A HEART-THROB


On 14 November 2001
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Pint-sized Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has been branded a pin-up by teenage girls worldwide despite his tender age.

The 12-year-old actor appeared on David Letterman’s top-rated US chat show earlier this week where he elicited Beatlemania-like screams from the crowd. Sitting alongside the veteran TV presenter, Daniel shared a story from his trip this week to the MTV studios in Times Square.

“Outside there was this girl with a huge plaque saying ‘Nothing can come between me and Harry Potter’, and she was wearing nothing but a towel,” says Harry himself. MTV’s Total Request Live presenter Carson Daly then invited the cheeky girl inside the glass studio. “She came up and she was really cool,” added Daniel.

American girls aren’t the only ones caught in the little Brit’s spell. Welsh opera divette Charlotte Church finds him adorable, and predicts the young actor has quite the future with the opposite sex. “Harry Potter is the don, and playing Harry Potter will get him all the ladies,” says the 15-year-old soprano.

Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone opens on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday. For more on Harry Potter, check out HELLO’s special on the phenomenon.

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Harry Potter producers are racing to film the sequel before young Daniel Radcliffe hits puberty
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As fans on his US chat show screamed for Daniel with Beatlemania-like fervor, presenter David Letterman joked: "When did you meet George and Ringo?"